Baojian

Chapter 197 Identification

"Xiao Wei, you have a lot of good things here, not just limited to our country's bronze wares, right?" Gan Yafu's eyes lit up after entering the bronze wares hall.

Although the size of this bronze ware hall is only about [-] square meters, and there are only [-] or [-] pieces of things displayed, the specifications of the bronze ware inside are very high, and there are even two objects that do not belong to China.

Bronze ware is a utensil made of bronze, that is, an alloy of red copper and tin. It was born in the Bronze Age of human civilization. Because bronze ware appears all over the world, it is a symbol of world civilization.

The earliest bronze ware in the world appeared in the Mesopotamia 5000 to 6000 years ago.

The era of the development of my country's bronze wares was during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Because of their exquisite craftsmanship, they enjoy a high reputation and artistic value among bronze wares in the world, representing my country's superb technology and culture in the pre-Qin period.

Bronze ware reveals to people the exquisite casting technology, cultural level and historical origin of the Chinese nation with its unique shape, exquisite decoration and elegant inscriptions, so it is called "a living history book" by historians.

However, in China, the buying and selling of bronze wares is prohibited, and the market has not been released. Even if it is a collection, you can only collect bronze wares that have been handed down from generation to generation. As for buying and selling unearthed bronze wares, it is illegal.

The bronze tripod placed in the middle of the room made Li Ran, who had just entered the door following Qin Feng, gasp, turned to look at Wei Hua, and said, "Brother Hua, this thing is an important weapon for the country, how dare you Get it?"

As a symbol of political and economic power in the ancient society ruled by ritual, the tripods made by kings and marquises are undoubtedly the most valuable bronze vessels, and this is unique to our country.

As early as before liberation, the value of the bronze tripod was extremely high, and there was even a saying that a tripod was worth a thousand gold. If there were inscriptions engraved on the tripod, it would be worth a thousand gold.

However, due to the relatively large shape of the vessel, there are not many bronze tripods lost abroad. If the three-legged tripod placed in the room is real, it must have been bought and sold by Wei Hua privately, so Li Ran would say Come in that way.

Although Wei Hua has a strong background, the family is not without political enemies. When he gains power, he is not afraid that others will use this to attack him, but if he loses power, this may be a trick to be manipulated.

So like Li Ran, the children of the aristocratic families in the capital, everyone has done some dirty things secretly, but on the surface, they seldom give people any excuses.

"You don't know much about bronze ware, so don't mix it up."

Wei Hua interrupted Li Ran with a wave of his hand, looked at Gan Yafu and said, "Mr. Gan, what do you think of this tripod? There are many inscriptions on the inner wall, so it is considered an important weapon of the country?"

"Mr. Wei? Did you test me?"

Gan Yafu didn't have the status of old Qi, he was more polite to Wei Hua, and said with a smile: "I'm not the protagonist today, the teacher said, let Xiao Qin judge..."

"Qin Feng? Really let him come?"

Wei Hua frowned imperceptibly. The reason why he invited Mr. Qi and others was to turn his club into a high-end brand of antique shops, so he didn't want Qin Feng, an unknown person, to comment on it. .

"Of course, I dare not disobey the teacher's words." Gan Yafu played Tai Chi well, and pushed the matter to Qi Lao.

"Okay, Xiao Qin, come and take a look."

Wei Hua was a little helpless. Although he was well-known in the political and business circles, his status in the antique business circle was really far behind that of Mr. Qi.

"Boss Wei, don't look at it, this tripod is fake."

Qin Feng walked to the side of the tripod and said: "The bronze tripod is made of metals such as red copper and tin. It is very hard. Generally, it will not be damaged even if it is buried in the ground for thousands of years. But the green rust, even No matter how early it is unearthed, it cannot be eliminated.”

Knocking on the bronze tripod with a diameter of one meter on the inner wall, Qin Feng said with a smile: "Boss Wei, your object is made of golden light, isn't that clearly telling us that it is an imitation?"

Qin Feng's words were well-founded, and everyone in the venue nodded secretly. It seems that this young man still knows some knowledge about bronze ware after he can say these words.

Only Li Ran blushed at what Qin Feng said. He studied museums as an undergraduate, so he was placed under Mr. Qi's door. But now that he is a graduate student, his knowledge is not as good as that of Qin Feng, who has only been enrolled for a month. newborn.

Seeing Li Ran's ugly face, Qin Feng couldn't help but said with a smile: "Brother Ran, you specialize in real estate, it's normal if you don't understand, if you show me a piece of porcelain marked "Made in the Qianlong Period of the Ming Dynasty", maybe I'll take it seriously, too."

"Stinky boy, don't you just bury me?" After hearing Qin Feng's words, Li Ran also laughed. There is an allusion to what Qin Feng said, and many people in the circle know it.

From the mid-90s, there was a wave of collecting fever in Beijing. Of course, this kind of collection requires eyesight and years of accumulated experience, but financial resources are also very important.

Most of the wealthy people in the mid-90s were nouveau riche who went into business in their early years. Those people even threw themselves into the army of collectors even whoever Wang Xizhi and Qi Baishi were.

To say that the favorite of antique dealers is this kind of person. To describe it in a sentence ten years later, it would be "people are stupid and have a lot of money". up.

As a result, all kinds of fakes and imitations appeared one after another. Some people invested hundreds of millions, but they collected a whole room of fake antiques. Feng Yongkang's family seized this opportunity and made a huge profit. Pen.

After these arty nouveau riche bought something, they still had to show off, so the joke came out.

Boss Dong, who made his fortune wholesale clothing in the early years, went to Panjiayuan, which was not very prosperous at that time, and bought a plum vase for 3 yuan.

The shape of this porcelain is very beautiful. Boss Dong, who read several ceramic appraisal books, thought he had picked up a big leak, so at a gathering of people in the antique circle, he took out the plum vase with great care.

It's ridiculous to say that at the very beginning, none of the group of nouveau riche could see that there was something wrong with the inscription, and those who had no reason were praising Boss Dong for picking it up, and there were many admirers.

Since it is a gathering of people from the antique circle, there must always be one or two experts, right?When the plum vase finally fell into the hands of an expert, the buddy saw the signature and almost knocked the bottle to the ground by mistake.

If it's a small flaw, that expert might just pretend to be a fool, satisfying the show-off mentality of these outbursts.

But this plum vase is too wrong. When will the Qianlong Dynasty appear in the next year?If the experts don't point it out, then he himself won't be in this circle anymore.

When the expert said that the inscription was wrong, Boss Dong once lost his temper, saying that the expert was uneducated, but he called the secretary to check, and suddenly fell silent. The party broke up badly.

As soon as the news got out, those nouveau riche who were immediately treated as a joke by the real antique business, and deeply hurt their self-esteem, all went to experts to make an appraisal at their own homes.

The experts didn't say much about the results of the appraisal, but since that incident, the number of "cultural people" in the capital has dropped sharply, and Boss Dong is even more secretive about antiques, basically whoever mentions them is in a hurry.

"Okay, Xiao Qin, let's take a look at these things..."

Hearing the allusion mentioned by Qin Feng, Boss Wei's face suddenly turned a little ugly, because in those few years, although he was not as bad as Qin Feng said, he did buy a lot of fakes and spent a lot of money.

What's more, the old man of the Wei family who fought in the country once did something ridiculous. It was when he was beating the local tyrants, the old man found an authentic painting of Tang Bohu from the house of the landlord and squire.

The people who will make revolutions are basically not highly educated, and the old man is even less interested in these things for writing and drawing.

Later, when Taizu found out about this, he called Boss Wei's grandpa to teach him a lesson, and issued a document in the entire army demanding the protection of cultural relics. Since then, such things have not happened again.

"Xiao Qin, more than half of the things I have here are bought from foreign auctions, and there are more than a dozen modern bronzes that have been imitated from old times. Can you tell them apart?"

Wei Hua's words made it difficult for Qin Feng, because the identification of antiques takes a certain amount of time, and there are a total of forty or fifty bronze wares here, and it is not ordinary difficult to identify them all.

Wei Hua, who had a good impression of Qin Feng at first, now just wants to let this kid make a fool of himself and get out of here quickly, because he also arranged for a reporter to interview him during the dinner, so he can't let Qin Feng be the protagonist, right?

"Okay, let's make a fool of that kid. If you make a mistake, don't laugh at me."

Qin Feng raised his eyebrows when he heard the words. He naturally felt the impatience in Boss Wei's heart, but Qin Feng was also unwilling to let him, Qin, make a fool of himself in public.

"By the way, do you have carbon pens here?" Qin Feng turned his head and looked at the Miss Manners by the door.

"Why do you want a pen?" Wei Hua frowned, and said to the Miss Yi in a cheongsam, "Hurry up and find him a carbon pen."

"Hehe, Boss Wei will know in a while." Qin Feng didn't say much, and went straight to the first booth in the room.

"Bronze wares are rich in types, but the most valuable ones are bronze sacrificial wares and weapons, bronze mirrors and miscellaneous wares..."

Qin Feng walked towards the bronze wares placed on the table, and said in his mouth: "Bronze sacrificial vessels are divided into four types: food vessels, wine vessels, water vessels, and musical instruments. Boss Wei has a high vision, and the collection of these things is very valuable. "

While speaking, the hostess lady trotted into the room and handed a carbon pen into Qin Feng's hand.

"For good antiques, there will naturally be more fakes. The better the quality, the greater the chance of fakes."

After taking the carbon pen, Qin Feng casually made a cross on a beautifully crafted bronze wine vessel with an open mouth, high neck, and ring feet!
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